September 2011 - a Happy non-alcoholic New Year!

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Hi

Still whispering the good news but is there anyone else out there wishing they had made the most of the Stilton this Christmas? [Wink]

Hi, I'd like to join too
I'm 29 and this is my first pregnancy. DP and I decided to start trying in the new year - and I'm fairly sure I concieved on new years day! DP thought I was mad when I insisted on doing a test before AF was due - tested at 3+4 and it was positive! As its still really really early, I keep expecting AF to arrive any minute. I'm 4+1 today and due on 26th September. Did another test today to make sure, and the line was much darker, so feel reassured by that.
Until 2 weeks ago I was completley clueless about pregnancy - have been reading mumsnet obsessively so I'm learning fast!
Hi to everyone else due in Sept - will go and add myself to the stats now.

Brilliant news Misty! Must be a weight off your mind.

redlaura, me too, I'm feeling fecking awful. Feeling very faint, and only eating bland stuff like toast, biscuits and stuff like that. Seen midwife today, she was lovely, made me much more reassured, said I can ring docs anytime and if nec I can go in to hosp for rehydration for 24hours. Still doesn't stop me feeling faint though at the moment, but she said to self cert for a week and get a sick note for work if I needed more time off. I've lost 8lbs in 10 days

Misty, just posted in the other thread, hoping everything was OK, glad you saw heartbeat.

Misty I'm so happy for you. How many weeks are you then to have seen the heartbeat?
On the sickness thing, I'm
5+4 and not feeling sick yet. Wish I would though to feel pregnant. Boobs are like big melons and so painful

Yep had a couple of horrid headaches, start 7wks tom. I have to eat something every hour from the moment I open my hours in the morning otherwise my head spins, get vdizzy and start to feel yucky. But not like 1st preg when I was sick and yucky feeling all day. Eating little and oftern helps me, I have 3 different types of biscuits on the go. Gingernuts, fig rolls and digestives. I save my healthy eating for later in the day when I feel more settled. I am also eating my main meal of the day at lunchtime instead of evening as that is helping too.
Big sympathies for you 100yrs, I lost nearly a stone in my 1st trimester with DD1, but in my case it was a bonus (but horrid feeling).

Hello all, found out at the weekend that I'm expecting 2nd child. So excited, as we have been TTC for nearly three years (DD celebrated her fifth birthday at the weekend). Really paranoid about mc because of my age (39 next month) and just because it's taken us so long to fall pregnant again, it seems to good to be true - we had an appointment with the infertility clinic next week (now cancelled, but I feel paranoid even about that!).

Anyhow, am glad to have found such an active club already, and pleased to see there are some other older mums in here .

Have had aching in lower right abdomen for past 48 hours, got in a bit of a panic about ectopic pregnancy, so very reassured to read that lots of you are having aches and pains at same stage!

Will add my stats to other page now.

Hi all new people!

So this is weird right: my sickness seems to be quite a bit better the last few days, just in the evenings when I'm knackered. BUT DS was eating a banana yesterday and the smell and thought of the texture of it were so utterly repellent to me that I had to leave the room as I was retching so much! That never happened first time round.

And I have developed the most uncontrollable cravings for acidic food; pickled onions, sushi ginger, stuff like that. I sat and ate a whole spoonful of dijon mustard that was left on my plate the other night

I had the needing to puke with fairly bland smells with both other pgs feralgirl. Actually just a little nervous that I don't have that o far yet.

Used to come down the stairs and if the fridge was open I had to get dh to close it before I could go into the kitchen.

Hi newbies.

Glad everything was fine misty.

Congratulations to all the new joiners!

Misty9 So pleased for you. Such great news. It is always so reassuring to see the heartbeat.

Belgina Thinking of you and hoping all well [big hug emoticon]

feralgirl I love pickles anyway but definitely went extra mad for them with DS1 and DS2. Not so much this time yet though thinking about it now is making me peckish

loomer lots of older mums on here

I don't think I am going to be able to keep things quiet for much longer. I have a party to go to next weekend. I tried on some dresses today and I already have a very obvious and clearly defined bump at 7 weeks. I showed early the last two times too so not much surprise there. At least I won't have to make up excuses for not drinking

Hi everyone. About to go to bed, but want to say:

Yay misty what a relief. So glad your scan was good news :)

feralgirl your description of sickness sounds very familiar to me. Sights and textures really set me off. I cant watch how clean is your house or znything like it when pg, lol. I also can't look up, cause he stretching of my neck makes me gag. Oddly enough I'm craving spicy foods as everything at the moment tastes bland, even when other people report it being quite spicy. Really odd

100years As long as you can keep drink down, and eat something, baby will be fine. It'll use your reserves. I always just eat what I can stomach and then make up with healthier stuff when the sickness wears off.

Hi to the new arrivals and hope all the not so new arrivals are ok. Goodnight :)

Almost forgot. I had flu jab yesterday. No ill effects so far, just sore where the needle went in for about 12 hours.

hello, since my positive tests yesterday i feel quite normal. I felt more pregnant yesterday before i tested. I think it was nerves! I almost feel that it's something i might have made up but three positive tests clearly say it's not. I've got a docs appt for monday. I have rheumatoid arthritis and have done for about three years, i'll have to call the hospital to let then know. I've been told that the risk of coming off my two medications is worse to a baby (of me being very ill) than staying on them. It's weird knowing i have to take them when naturally everyone stops things like that x

100years and to all those other nauseous ladies: try drinking Ginger beer (non alcoholic of course). It has really helped me in the last few weeks. Ginger is really good for settling your stomach and the sugar really helps when you can't stomach getting energy from anywhere else. Just give if a go. It can make the world a better place for an hour or so and you might feel better enough to get some solids down you.

Feeling rough today. It's like having a permanent hangover! When will I start "blooming" I wonder?

Have a good day all

Yeah I have some ginger beer here, made sure it's flat and am drinking that slowly. The other day I was drinking boiled water with sugar in, just so I had some energy and some fluids in me!

Hi, mind if i join

Found out yesterday i'm pregnant, have a 2yo DD. I felt OK yesterday, but this morning i feel soooo sick.

Am only about 4 weeks preg at the mo, but i was massive in my last pregnancy and have been left with next to no stomach muscles I'm not going to be able to hide this one am I?

100years you could also. Try Ginger tea if you'd rather drink a warm drink. Or you could keep some chrystalised Ginger on you as a snack, because it'll also boost your bloodsugar, because they're usually sugar coated. In my last pregnancy I actually found that fizzy drinks settled my stomach and only drank sparkling water, so you could give sparkling root Ginger a go. Also remember that for some people ginger actually makes things worse. If that's the case you could try peppermint tea. Oh and I also thought that if you're taking a pregnancy multi- vitamin, you might want to try stopping it and swapping to colic acid on it's own + spatone if you want an iron supplement. I speak from experience here. Multi-vitamins often contain iron, which is actually quite hard on the stomach. Spatone is a natural iron supplement which is much gentler on the stomach. I found that when I stopped my multivitamin I could eat a more varied diet again, which I figured would give me more nutrients in a much better way. Soups might help too, easy to digest and packed with vitamins :)

yoshimi. I knew someone with severe rheumatoid arthritis and who was on meds and her baby was fine and perfectly healthy :)

I'd been thinking about getting the flu jab too, but somehow I want to wait until after my scan. A bit as if i'd jinx it by doing too much pregnancy related things, IYKWIM

Hi to everyone else. Hope this stage will fly for all of you and that the sickness may miraculously disappear at 12 weeks exactly :o

see... I'm already too slow to keep up!

mmm, I love ginger. Twinings did a really lovely strong ginger tea. I can't find it anywhere now only the ginger and lemon one which of course i don't really like! I've just bought some yogi tea from holland and barrett. They small lovely with ginger, cinnamon cloves etc in. I think they're caffine free. Is anyone changing the amount of caffinated tea of coffee they drink. My friend says two cups a day is the most recommened?

My yoga teacher told me yesterday that i can't come to class again until i'm 12 weeks. I suppose it makes sense but i thought she would say just don't do certain poses. Oh well, nice to have a break. I think I may start swimming?

Thanks Belgina, I have spoken to the hospital before and i'm not on any meds that i'd have to stop. I know i don't have any choice really and it's for the best.
sorry for waffling on, just sat at work eating soup.

Hope you don't mind me joining you. I have changed from my normal posting name as I have several rl friends on here and am endeavouring to keep the pregnancy quiet for now at least.

I'm 30, pregnant with dc2 who is due on September 25th. DD is approaching 4 and it has taken us a long time to decide to have another after a fairly rough ride giving birth to dd. We hadn't quite expected that we'd chuck the condoms in the bin one day and conceive a day later (it took a couple of years and a miscarriage to conceive dd).

I'm that heady mix of nervous, excited and hungry that I remember from last time. Symptoms come and go. Am only 4 and a half weeks though so is to be expected. Of course the rational part of me isn't in control atm and am still POAS daily and squinting to see if it's darker than yesterday. Said part of me will be in control for the forseeable future and will be bringing forth a carefully regimented routine of knicker checking interspersed with random panicking. For this I can only apologise.

Thus far I'm crap at pregnancy. With dd, it all being new and exciting, I was very clued up. This time round I'm having to get up at 2am to take folic acid as I've forgotten again, can't remember whether I'm 4+1 or 4+3 or what, no clue what I should and shouldn't be eating and keep forgetting entirely that I'm pg. Am I supposed to be this rubbish second time round?

Thankfully I think pate and soft cheese etc were sent from the very devil to corrupt us so I avoid most of the forbidden stuff anyway. Why on earth would you eat mouldy cheese? Why? And I'm teetotal which helps. I've switched to fruit teas though, that bit I remember.

Anyway, hello. I run on a lot. I'm looking forward to chatting. Some of my best friends in the world I met on my last MN antenatal thread.

Six weeks tomorrow, hurrah. God, this is dragging.

I'm feeling okay, only mildly nauseous from time to time, appetite has come back (and I'm resisting the urge to pig out because it feels like I'm "allowed")

Anyone else really bloated? I look about four months gone!

Told my parents at the weekend. They were thrilled, but still getting used to the idea of being grandparents. Bless 'em

I enjoyed watching my parents become grandparents as much as I enjoyed becoming a mother. The bond is just wonderful. I was showing by 7 weeks last time despite being pretty thin. The bloat used to get worse as the day progressed iirc.

I'm having to eat regularly or I feel sick. But I'm very, very aware of how fat I was last time. Despite being v active, I put on about 78 stone. It was very hard to lose it. This time I'm having a tiny bump and will spring back into shape.

PS I'm not sure if I'm lying to you or myself.

That's EXACTLY how it is for me, Host. By the time I get home from work I'm itching to put on my nice elasticated waist pyjama bottoms. As the day progresses, I keep looking down at my gut worrying that people are going to guess!

Call me shallow, but I'm quite worried about putting on loads of weight. I'm not skinny by any means (my cellulite and disproportionately large arse will tell you that) but I've never been overweight and I'm worried I'll turn into a blimp. I'm also very lazy and love food so the prospect of having to shift loads of excess blubber afterwards is a really depressing one...

My colleagues all knew by 8 weeks, honestly, I couldn't do up my trousers. I think it's normal to worry about it. Though generally as the pregnancy progresses you care less and less and just enjoy the bump growing.

I really wouldn't think about it now. Eat healthily, have lots of snacks to hand that are healthy so that you don't go straight for the sugar rush because it's there and reassure yourself that people like me are an anomoly. BFing didn't make me lose weight at all for example. My Mum was the same, just put on weight in pregnancy.

I'm back to a normal size now (not for long though) and can promise you that the wonderful baby is more than worth it. And pushing a pram is excellent exercise. As is chasing after a child. Speaking of which, must collect her from preschool...

I also put loadsa weight on when pg (4st each time!) Luckily I've lost it the last three times, bar 2-3 lbs, so not too worried this time (if it sticks, fingers x-ed). I could never be too active when pg due to pgp, which in mu last pregnancy refuced me to hobbling around on crutches for 3 months. After dd1&2 the loss was quicker too, which I think was due to not being able to spend all day sitting cuddling a baby, due to the other dcs wanting attention.

phantom I also made some wonderful friends via my last an thread. We're still in touch, sadly none live near me. Still, one of them really helped me the other day :)

Right, about time to get ready for the school run.

I second the pushing a pram being great exercise, I managed to shed my extra 4 stone pretty quickly (althought a LOT of it actually went while I was in the hospital after having DD!).

My nausea is just making me grumpy at the moment, and I'm eating random things all the time just to stave it off.

I was also massive in my last PG, and I'm "blossoming out" nicely already - I keep carrying things around (like random bits of paper) in front of me at work to try and hide it!